Naomi Wadler, the 11-year-old #NeverAgain activist who was the youngest speaker at last month’s March For Our Lives in Washington, D.C., captured the audience’s attention—and garnered the event’s first standing ovation—with her acceptance speech.

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“Black women are forgotten, and their names aren’t remembered,” Wadler said. “They aren’t thought of as humans; they’re thought of as numbers and statistics.” She then addressed the recent Waffle House shooting, acknowledging that if the murderer had been a person of color, he would not have been offered bail.